Avinash ಅವಿನಾಶ್
@tnavinash.bsky.social
Biochemist turned high school science teacher.
Ratri (The Night) chases the Moon #seraikela #chau (from a SPIC MACAY programme at school)
November 14, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Ratri (The Night) chases the Moon #seraikela #chau (from a SPIC MACAY programme at school)
This is entirely sensible, but at the same time, gives me a feeling of being a wildly optimistic take on Valve.
atomicpoet.org/objects/780c...
atomicpoet.org/objects/780c...
atomicpoet's instance
Valve isn’t just the biggest force in PC gaming, and they’re not just the newest console manufacturer swaggering into the arena. They’re morphing into something far bolder: the Apple of Linux.If yo...
atomicpoet.org
November 14, 2025 at 10:57 AM
This is entirely sensible, but at the same time, gives me a feeling of being a wildly optimistic take on Valve.
atomicpoet.org/objects/780c...
atomicpoet.org/objects/780c...
With current pledges, the world's on track for 2.6°C of warming in 2100 compared to preindustrial levels.
10 years ago, before the Paris agreement, it was 3.6°C
20+ years ago, we thought it would be 4-5°C
So 2.6°C is better, but the problem is that climate impacts are way worse than we predicted.
10 years ago, before the Paris agreement, it was 3.6°C
20+ years ago, we thought it would be 4-5°C
So 2.6°C is better, but the problem is that climate impacts are way worse than we predicted.
World still on track for catastrophic 2.6C temperature rise, report finds
Fossil fuel emissions have hit a record high while many nations have done too little to avert deadly global heating
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Inside the BBC’s Gaza Fiasco • EQUATOR
How the world’s most trusted media organisation fell apart
www.equator.org
November 13, 2025 at 5:59 PM
How generations of meddlesome public health campaigns changed everyday life — and made life twice as long as it used to be.
www.thenewatlantis.com/publications...
www.thenewatlantis.com/publications...
Two Hundred Years to Flatten the Curve — The New Atlantis
How generations of meddlesome public health campaigns changed everyday life — and made life twice as long as it used to be
www.thenewatlantis.com
November 13, 2025 at 5:53 PM
How generations of meddlesome public health campaigns changed everyday life — and made life twice as long as it used to be.
www.thenewatlantis.com/publications...
www.thenewatlantis.com/publications...
"It’s hard to remember—impossible, if you’re under thirty—but there was an Internet before there was a World Wide Web."
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
How the Web Was Lost | James Gleick | The New York Review of Books
The Internet was not meant to suck.
www.nybooks.com
November 13, 2025 at 5:51 PM
"It’s hard to remember—impossible, if you’re under thirty—but there was an Internet before there was a World Wide Web."
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
I continue to be flabbergasted with geneticists (the prof quoted here) who have such a hollow understanding of biology.
Forget what an individual would actually do.
Forget what an individual would actually do.
I am somehow both still trying to get my head around “Hitler would have applied his policies to himself, if he had seen MY findings” and convinced that in less bizarre forms it’s pretty common. Assume there is no overriding interest, no ideology, and everyone is available to your reasoning. Debate!
November 13, 2025 at 5:46 PM
I continue to be flabbergasted with geneticists (the prof quoted here) who have such a hollow understanding of biology.
Forget what an individual would actually do.
Forget what an individual would actually do.
Is there a finer crime novel set in Los Angeles?
Raymond Chandler's books and Walter Moseley's Easy Rawlins series are great, but they aren't as epic as Ellroy's quartet.
Raymond Chandler's books and Walter Moseley's Easy Rawlins series are great, but they aren't as epic as Ellroy's quartet.
November 13, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Is there a finer crime novel set in Los Angeles?
Raymond Chandler's books and Walter Moseley's Easy Rawlins series are great, but they aren't as epic as Ellroy's quartet.
Raymond Chandler's books and Walter Moseley's Easy Rawlins series are great, but they aren't as epic as Ellroy's quartet.
Lovely album of Kazakh folk songs by singer/songwriter Mamer.
(More here realworldrecords.com/artists/mamer/ )
youtube.com/watch?v=4Fqw...
(More here realworldrecords.com/artists/mamer/ )
youtube.com/watch?v=4Fqw...
Mamer - Real World Records
The singer/songwriter Mamer was raised in Xinjiang, one of ten children for whom singing and playing the two-string dombra lute was as much a part of life as sunrise. Out here - in this land of Turkic tongues and ethnic minorities - traditional music flows from yurts and across the sparsely inhabited steppes. And Mamer's voice, a low, resonant, magical thing, still joins it.
realworldrecords.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Lovely album of Kazakh folk songs by singer/songwriter Mamer.
(More here realworldrecords.com/artists/mamer/ )
youtube.com/watch?v=4Fqw...
(More here realworldrecords.com/artists/mamer/ )
youtube.com/watch?v=4Fqw...
Re-reading the first two books in the trilogy now that the final one has been released. Will never match His Dark Materials, but hoping for a satisfactory finale.
@[email protected] @rapiduplift.bsky.social @maitrey.bsky.social @mrajshekhar.bsky.social @leafwarbler.bsky.social
@[email protected] @rapiduplift.bsky.social @maitrey.bsky.social @mrajshekhar.bsky.social @leafwarbler.bsky.social
November 9, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Re-reading the first two books in the trilogy now that the final one has been released. Will never match His Dark Materials, but hoping for a satisfactory finale.
@[email protected] @rapiduplift.bsky.social @maitrey.bsky.social @mrajshekhar.bsky.social @leafwarbler.bsky.social
@[email protected] @rapiduplift.bsky.social @maitrey.bsky.social @mrajshekhar.bsky.social @leafwarbler.bsky.social
November 9, 2025 at 7:18 AM
What happens if the world gets too hot for animals to survive?
We are very much on course to this ☹️
thebulletin.org/2022/07/extr...
We are very much on course to this ☹️
thebulletin.org/2022/07/extr...
What happens if the world gets too hot for animals to survive? - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
As extreme heat events become more common, humans will increasingly need technologies like air conditioning to survive. But what about the animals?
thebulletin.org
November 9, 2025 at 6:26 AM
What happens if the world gets too hot for animals to survive?
We are very much on course to this ☹️
thebulletin.org/2022/07/extr...
We are very much on course to this ☹️
thebulletin.org/2022/07/extr...
November 8, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Probably the one positive thing to come out of anything Dick Cheney did (read the entire thread)
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@charlescmann.bsky.social on Bluesky
Just remembering that Dick Cheney secretly intervened in a dispute over the Klamath River in 2001--and caused the biggest fish die-off in US history, with ~77,000 fully grown adult salmon piled on the banks of the river.
bsky.app
November 8, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Probably the one positive thing to come out of anything Dick Cheney did (read the entire thread)
bsky.app/profile/did:...
bsky.app/profile/did:...
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My analysis of his year's Economics Nobel is out in EPW! What's wrong with the Economics Nobel this time around? I've written a little commentary arguing that the Prize rewards Eurocentric foundations for (innovation-driven) growth and supports a technology fetish. PDF: ingridhk.com/wp-content/u...
November 8, 2025 at 2:55 PM
My analysis of his year's Economics Nobel is out in EPW! What's wrong with the Economics Nobel this time around? I've written a little commentary arguing that the Prize rewards Eurocentric foundations for (innovation-driven) growth and supports a technology fetish. PDF: ingridhk.com/wp-content/u...
Original post: mastodon.social/@randahl/115...
November 8, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Original post: mastodon.social/@randahl/115...
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On the event of James Watson's death, I highly recommend this 2023 commentary from @matthewcobb.bsky.social and Nathaniel Comfort with crucial new insights into the discovery of the double helix. (And also check out Cobb's brand new biography of Francis Crick) www.nature.com/articles/d41...
What Rosalind Franklin truly contributed to the discovery of DNA’s structure
Franklin was no victim in how the DNA double helix was solved. An overlooked letter and an unpublished news article, both written in 1953, reveal that she was an equal player.
www.nature.com
November 7, 2025 at 9:25 PM
On the event of James Watson's death, I highly recommend this 2023 commentary from @matthewcobb.bsky.social and Nathaniel Comfort with crucial new insights into the discovery of the double helix. (And also check out Cobb's brand new biography of Francis Crick) www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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James D. Watson is dead. Stay tuned for some thoughts, based on my research on his biography, to be published soon.
While I write that up, y'all can throw tomatoes at this if you like. But I will offer a more nuanced take.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/s...
While I write that up, y'all can throw tomatoes at this if you like. But I will offer a more nuanced take.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/s...
James Watson, Co-Discoverer of the Structure of DNA, Is Dead at 97
www.nytimes.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:39 PM
James D. Watson is dead. Stay tuned for some thoughts, based on my research on his biography, to be published soon.
While I write that up, y'all can throw tomatoes at this if you like. But I will offer a more nuanced take.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/s...
While I write that up, y'all can throw tomatoes at this if you like. But I will offer a more nuanced take.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/s...
I still don't understand why the Modi government made such a big deal of a defunct movement. There were no indications of anything brewing in India when they did this.
www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
November 7, 2025 at 12:58 PM
I still don't understand why the Modi government made such a big deal of a defunct movement. There were no indications of anything brewing in India when they did this.
www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
"China is now making more money from exporting green technology than US makes from exporting fossil fuels" 😲
(reluctantly linking to The Economist)
www.economist.com/leaders/2025...
(reluctantly linking to The Economist)
www.economist.com/leaders/2025...
China’s clean-energy revolution will reshape markets and politics
The world’s biggest manufacturer now has an interest in the world decarbonising
www.economist.com
November 7, 2025 at 12:22 PM
"China is now making more money from exporting green technology than US makes from exporting fossil fuels" 😲
(reluctantly linking to The Economist)
www.economist.com/leaders/2025...
(reluctantly linking to The Economist)
www.economist.com/leaders/2025...
The shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. has already killed hundreds of thousands
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands | The New Yorker
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
www.newyorker.com
November 7, 2025 at 12:14 PM
The shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. has already killed hundreds of thousands
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...